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Showing posts with label earth. Show all posts

August 4, 2012

Habitable Extra Solar Planets


Image: Artist’s conception of five potentially habitable exoplanets, with Earth and Mars to scale. Credit: The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog, PHL @ UPR Arecibo.

April 4, 2011

Earth gravitational pull

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This globe—the BBC has a spinnable version—shows you how the strength of gravitational pull differs in different places around the Earth. The yellow areas were where gravity is strongest. The blue spots is where it is weakest.